Cloud Security Lead Jobs in London

Cloud Security Leader
England > London

The median Cloud Security Leader salary in London is £125,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 504 -
Rank change year-on-year +111 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Security Lead 3 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.013% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.014% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £93,250 -
25th Percentile £122,500 £94,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £97,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% - -
75th Percentile £127,500 £99,375 -
90th Percentile - £99,750 -
England median annual salary £95,000 £97,500 -
% change year-on-year -2.56% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,033 21,986 27,482
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 94.37% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,404 15,933 21,585
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

Cloud Security Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Cloud Security Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Security Lead in London

Cloud Security Lead
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Security Lead in London.

Salary trend for Cloud Security Lead in London

Cloud Security Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, Cloud Security Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Cloud Security Lead in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage

Cloud Security Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Law
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft